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The Last GM Big-Block V-8 Rolls Off the Line
DesScorp writes "It's the end of an era in auto technology, as the very last big block V-8 engine from GM has rolled off the production line. The L18 engine was the last variant of an engine that had been in continuous production for over 50 years. The big blocks powered everything from the classic muscle cars of the '60s and '70s to heavy-duty trucks today. From the Buffalo News: 'When GM said last June the L18 would be eliminated by year's end, the announcement triggered another show of devotion to the product. Some customers ordered two years' worth of L18s, to put on the shelf for future use.' More than 5 million big blocks have been produced over the engine's history. The final big block engine to come off the line in Tonawanda, NY is headed for the GM Heritage Center in Sterling Heights, MI."
Yeah, it's all great until you kill someone in an effort to lengthen your pathetically small penis. Oh, and the DEC VAX is a supermini - not a mainframe (the PDP-10 was the mainframe).
DNS-and-BIND's screeds are so rife with ignorance, erroneous information, and poorly conceived notions of denominationalism that I hardly know where to begin. Even disregarding obvious errors like his insistence that the most valuable skill one can have is the ability to lie convincingly, the fallacies of his claims are glaring to those of us who have educated ourselves about the implications of alcoholism. I assume you already know that he doesn't care much for airy-fairy things such as morality and integrity, but I have something more important to tell you. The fact is, ever since DNS-and-BIND decided to make us too confused, demoralized, and disunited to put up an effective opposition to his propositions, his consistent, unvarying line has been that he can absorb mana by devouring his nemeses' brains. He looks down upon the rest of us. From DNS-and-BIND's perspective, we are blind so he must tell us what to see; we are deaf so he must tell us what to hear; and we are mute so he must tell us what to say. Such views may fool acrimonious roustabouts, but I aver that DNS-and-BIND just reported that it is not only acceptable but indeed desirable to pervert human instincts by suppressing natural, feral constraints and encouraging abnormal patterns of behavior. Do you think that that's merely sloppy reporting on DNS-and-BIND's part? I don't. I think that it's a deliberate attempt to promote, foster, and institute adversarialism.
By using bombastic language and selective quotation, DNS-and-BIND is able to promote vapid ideologies such as misoneism. Sounds pretty disorganized, doesn't it? But is it any more so than his vicious wheelings and dealings? In case you have any doubts, some people have indicated that he has a morbid fascination with all that is inferior, debased, deformed, unsympathetic, and deceitful. I can neither confirm nor deny that statement, but I can say that if DNS-and-BIND manages to lionize irritating, pathetic pinheads, our nation will not endure as a civilization, as a geopolitical entity, or even as a society. Rather, it will exist only as a prison, a prison in which termagant wackos meddle in everyone else's affairs.
But it gets much worse than that. As I've said in the past, DNS-and-BIND seeks scapegoats for his own shortcomings by blaming the easiest target he can find, that is, the worst kinds of manipulative, ostentatious warlords I've ever seen. I correctly predicted that he would leave us in the lurch. Alas, I didn't think he'd do that so effectively—or so soon. I don't have time to go into this in as much detail as I should, but if DNS-and-BIND's admirers had even an ounce of integrity they would reinforce what is best in people. What's the best way to oust DNS-and-BIND and his ophidian, flippant stooges, who are legion, from anywhere we find them making my blood curdle? That's actually a tough nut to crack. The answer is related the way that we must overcome the fears that beset us every day of our lives. We must overcome the fear that DNS-and-BIND will offer hatred with an intellectual gloss. And to overcome these fears, we must urge lawmakers to pass a nonbinding resolution affirming that DNS-and-BIND may be engaged in extortion, racketeering, and/or money laundering.
With friends like DNS-and-BIND, who needs enemies? I mean, nothing unites people like a common enemy. That's why I would encourage everybody to take some shots of their own at DNS-and-BIND by reprimanding him for preventing me from sleeping soundly at night. He craves more power. I say we should give DNS-and-BIND more power—preferably, 10,000 volts of it.
Although the dialectics of mentally deficient praxis will formulate social policies and action programs based on the most quarrelsome sorts of fascism in existence in the near future, mutinous segregationists, motivated by either McCarthyism or a desire to lead a pernicious, uneducated life, are eager to help DNS-and-BIND alter laws, language, and customs in the service of regulating social relations. But it goes further than that; if he w
What a bunch of whining pussies.
The big block V8 is a piece of Americana. If you want to cry about emissions and technology, take a second before hand and remember that most tinkerers begin in the garage.
Say goodbye and thanks for the memories, or stfu.
Pussies.
OK, link swap (the corvette is the the one that looks like it is standing still)
You can't pwn somebody posting AC asshole.
Oh, right, because almost everybody likes to work on their own car.
It would be great to see this company fall under. Their products are not worth buying hence the reason why the V8 is gone. Honda and Toyota all the way!
Yet today, we still need a club to beat the farts out of the liberal hippy who thinks that because his 35HP hybrid pregnant-rollerskate is good enough for him, it's good enough for everyone else too.
Just throw a 2JZ in it and call it a day
The result of idiot, moron, democrat legislation and FAKE global warming data!!!!
Impeach ALL democrats!!!!!
DO NOT buy from GM (Government Motors)!